A yellow-flowered mustard of Mediterranean roadsides and field margins — a weed, by any ordinary definition, and drawn here with the full apparatus of the greatest botanical draughtsman of the age. That is what a flora is: not a selection of the beautiful, but an attempt at everything that grows in a place. The weeds get the same paper as the orchids because the book is a claim about a whole landscape. A flora has no favourites. That is the entire idea.

Maker: Ferdinand Bauer, for John Sibthorp
Date: 1806–1840
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01064

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 x 25.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	436	Excellent	Trimmed 5.2%
12 x 16 in	307	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
12 x 18 in	291	Excellent	Trimmed 5.2%
16 x 24 in	218	Excellent	Trimmed 5.2%
18 x 24 in	204	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
20 x 30 in	174	Good	Trimmed 5.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 36 in	145 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	122 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	102 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	87 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,685 x 5,242 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 150, lights 250 of 255; 0.7% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

9.53

Notes

Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
A plain margin is part of the file (14% of an edge): it prints as part of the picture

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